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Risus - The Anything RPG

Risus is a complete Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to provide an "RPG Lite" for those nights when the brain is too tired for exacting detail. Risus is especially valuable to GMs assembling a quick convention game, or any late-night beer-and-pretzels outing. While it is essentially a Universal Comedy System, it works just as well for serious play (if you insist!). Best of all, a Risus character takes about 20 seconds to create!
For our campaigns we will be using just basic rules. Character creation is 8 dice, plus 1 for a hook and 1 for a tale- for a total of 10 points.
I also use a Wound cliche to keep track of dice the character has lost. This wound cliche is tested against healer's/ healing cliche/ dice.